Business Continuity (BC) is variously described as encompassing a loosely defined set of planning, preparatory and related activities intended to ensure that an organisation’s critical business functions will either continue to operate in the face of disaster or will be recovered to an operational state within a reasonably short period.

And back in the day, establishing such a plan was a major headache, requiring dedicated leased lines to remote facilities that were either shared with other organisations or owned outright. It was also expensive. But that was before cloud. Today, such services are easily accessible and comparatively reasonably priced because internet connectivity is ubiquitous in business.